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I miss the time back in the day when I didn’t care if a fire engine drove through a wall while was playing. I’ve heard that you tend to get nervous about things you care about. Maybe I care about this too much.
Tilt Trek visits the showroom of recently minted Stern Dealer / Distributor, Lock Is Lit Pinball, to discuss the process of becoming one. Learn what he needed to do to get started and a few numbers you need to have handled to get it done. That’s right … a couple of real-world numbers are used in this conversation.
It’s a tutorial on my second favorite pinball game, Twilight Zone! What?! A stop-and-go game is among my favorite pinball games in the whole wide world?! Blasphemy!
S1ckH4ndsRBN tours Past Times Arcade in Girard, Ohio. It’s the host of the upcoming Steel City Mega Match Play Tournament, one of the new Stern Pro Circuit Events for this year to be held March 27 – 29, 2026.
Be ready to defend or at least react to ball deflections, misses, even targets that you shoot on purpose. It’s a visceral translation of The Black Knight’s power.
If that sounds like an informercial, good! The difference here is this information is free and useful. Plus, no one is trying to upsell you anything, and it’s not behind a paywall.
(Who’s that guy on the far right side?!)
See what happened at the event and how the game was revealed to us. Scan the differences among the trim levels of the Pro, Premium, and Limited Editions. (Insert Pokémon pun here.)
My “first look” review of the game from Stern Media Day
Throwing it back to the most recent Pinball Expo which had its largest Homebrew / Custom Game maker space to date, viewable from anywhere in the convention area.
YouTuber S1ckH4ndsRBN takes a tour of The Delaware Pinball Collective — Wilmington, Delaware’s lavish pinball collection and host of one of the new Stern Pro Circuit events this year, the Delaware Pinball Open.
This Ace (a difference of 0.364%) was livestreamed on one of pinball’s biggest stages, The Open World Pinball Championship.
See the close calls, the skillful saves, the simuldraineous events, the cash-ins, the scissors (me), the Commentators Curses (me again), the Lazarus bounce backs and much more exciting tournament action. Use this video to introduce someone to competitive pinball.